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Yakuza 0: Director's Cut announced for Switch 2 Launch Day (New Cutscenes, English Dub, 4-Player Online) [Will have Physical Release]
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Per RGG Twitter
- Never Before Seen Cutscenes
- Red Light Raid 4-Player Online Mode with up to 60 Unlockable characters
- French, Italian, German, and Spanish Text
- English Voiceover
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Tailzo
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Day 1
Chaserjoey
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Is it just new cutscenes?
mrtanooki
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very interested to see if this is Switch 2 only or multiplatform.
liquidtmd
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Hmm. Wonder what's in it / is it exclusive?
Patitoloco
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I wonder what the hell the director's cut content is.
I suppose it's coming to other consoles as well?
Mocha Joe
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Not dragon engine booooo
Blade30
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Director's Cut? Is there anything new or something?
Tailzo
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New cutscenes in one of my favourite games? I need it.
Desma
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Blade30 said:
Director's Cut? Is there anything new or something?
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New cutscenes
happydeer
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So is this multiplatform and what's the new content?
vestan
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Late ass late port but that key art is sexyyyy
I don't know if I have it in me to play Yakuza 0 for the 10th time
Linus815
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I HAVE ONE MORE PLAYTHROUGH IN ME
Tailzo
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vestan said:
Late ass late port but that key art is sexyyyy
I don't know if I have it in me to play Yakuza 0 for the 10th time
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Luckily I have only played it twice. (I love it so much!)
Blade30
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Desma said:
New cutscenes
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Sol C. Johnson
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lol how much more stuff is really needed. That game was jam packed with stuff!
oh, new cutscenes. Well, enjoy if this is your first time playing.
Patitoloco
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Sol C. Johnson said:
lol how much more stuff is really needed. That game was jam packed with stuff!
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Maybe the director cut stuff down!
SharpX68K
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Hopefully the newer games will come in time.
DespiteTheNora
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How many releases for this game now? Four, five?
FakePlasticTree
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The Persona 4 of the Like a Dragon series
shadowman16
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DespiteTheNora said:
How many releases for this game now? Four, five?
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Well:
PS3+PS4 at Japanese launch (PS4 localised 2 years after)
PC version then done a few years after that
Then Xbox version
Now the DC for (at least) Switch 2.
Guess the whole thing was a DC, not a remake for the Direct... naturally my question is "what is being added/changed". As in my opinion, very little in 0 needs changing (I mean, without rewriting major chunks of the game).
Since new cutscenes are a thing, Im gonna need some added Majima cutscenes that smooth his transition to Yakuza 1 better.
Also, since its a DC... for the love of Nugget, fix that fucking JCC mini game. You know, so it isnt a rigged POS anymore... Do that, and its a 10/10 for me.
jungius
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I am so happy but they have to make it clear whats been added and will this ported to other platform
convo
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DespiteTheNora said:
How many releases for this game now? Four, five?
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Ports aren't different editions of the game. This one has different and new stuff in it.
raketenrolf
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I wanted to replay this and this will be the version I will be playing. My favorite Yakuza game by far.
B4mv
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Waiting for more info, but I'm happy to go back to Y0 as it was the first game I played in the series, and now I'm completely caught up.
No Depth
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Just played Y0 last year…will just watch new content on YouTube.
SunBroDave
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New cutscenes in one of the best story driven games of all time??
DespiteTheNora
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convo said:
Ports aren't different editions of the game. This one has different and new stuff in it.
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So three then? The original release, the remaster and then this game which presumably adds some new stuff?
danmaku
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Because if there's something Yakuza 0 needed, it's more cutscenes.
But whatever, the game is a classic, enjoy it if you haven't played it yet!
Mesharey
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Will definitely get it.
DanarchyReigns
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I'm surprised they went the Director's Cut route. I figured it would be a remake but this works too.
DespiteTheNora said:
So three then? The original release, the remaster and then this game which presumably adds some new stuff?
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There hasn't been a remaster.
convo
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DespiteTheNora said:
So three then? The original release, the remaster and then this game which presumably adds some new stuff?
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If you count the PS3 releaese as some different edition maybe, but there really isn't anything besides the framerate that distinguishes it and the latest PC version, there isn't a remaster of Yakuza 0. You must be thinking of the remasterd versions of the other PS3 games. Yakuza Kiwami had a port on the switch, and not 0.
shadowman16
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danmaku said:
Because if there's something Yakuza 0 needed, it's more cutscenes.
But whatever, the game is a classic, enjoy it if you haven't played it yet!
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I mean considering the number of people who are caught out by Majima's change in Yakuza 1 and beyond, yes it needs more cutscenes to explain that better to newbies.
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So three then? The original release, the remaster and then this game which presumably adds some new stuff?
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2. Not sure where your pulling "remaster" from but that doesnt exist. Just the original release, and the DC we see here. All versions of 0 are the same until this one.
senj
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I knew a full remake of a barely-old and still great game didn't make any damn sense. This approach seems a lot more sane.
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convo said:
If you count the PS3 releaese as some different edition maybe, but there really isn't anything besides the framerate that distinguishes it and the latest PC version, there isn't a remaster of Yakuza 0. You must be thinking of the remasterd versions of the other PS3 games. Yakuza Kiwami had a port on the switch, and not 0.
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DanarchyReigns said:
There hasn't been a remaster.
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Yeah that's my mistake, I definitely mixed these up. Sorry, didn't mean to derail the thread. Apologies.
shadowman16
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senj said:
I knew a full remake of a barely-old and still great game didn't make any damn sense. This approach seems a lot more sane.
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I dont know, Ishin was a "remake" (though not in the DE) and that was actually less old than 0 at its time of the remakes release... Then again Ishin's remake fucking sucked in so many ways, a DC of the existing 0 is a much smarter move than that at least... but a DE remake would have been more enticing to me.
Still, the Switch 2 version can tweak a few things to make me want it even more. Getting the main vocal theme (Bubble) back in the game along with the vocal end credits song would be a start, especially as they managed that for Kiwami on Switch.
CannonFodder52
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I will play through Yakuza 0 every time it's rereleased. I must have like 6 playthroughs so far.
senj
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shadowman16 said:
I dont know, Ishin was a "remake" (though not in the DE) and that was actually less old than 0 at its time of the remakes release... Then again Ishin's remake fucking sucked in so many ways, a DC of the existing 0 is a much smarter move than that at least... but a DE remake would have been more enticing to me.
Still, the Switch 2 version can tweak a few things to make me want it even more. Getting the main vocal theme (Bubble) back in the game along with the vocal end credits song would be a start, especially as they managed that for Kiwami on Switch.
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Ishin was kind of an excuse to test-drive Unreal from what I understand.
Anyways the "didn't make sense" was in particular the idea they would remake it as part of getting more Yakuza onto Switch 2. 0 already looks good generally and runs on lightweight hardware, any remake was almost guaranteed to have steeper hardware requirements (Ishin has kind of crap performance) and therefore probably lead to a worse experience on SW2, so remaking it to get it on there made very little sense.
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senj said:
I knew a full remake of a barely-old and still great game didn't make any damn sense. This approach seems a lot more sane.
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The game turned ten years old last month. So I'm sorry to say you can remove "barely".
shadowman16
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senj said:
Ishin was kind of an excuse to test-drive Unreal from what I understand.
Anyways the "didn't make sense" was in particular the idea they would remake it as part of getting more Yakuza onto Switch 2. 0 already looks good generally and runs on lightweight hardware, any remake was almost guaranteed to have steeper hardware requirements (Ishin has kind of crap performance) and therefore probably lead to a worse experience on SW2, so remaking it to get it on there made very little sense.
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See, I get your points but they gonna need DE on Switch 2 for Kiwami 2 (which is probably the next game). Plus, while Ive not looked at Switch 2 specs, I assume it should be able to run the DE at least as well as base PS4?
KainXVIII
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$90 lfg!
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Vexii
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Hoping this releases on PC too
Dooble
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Online multiplayer btw
I think they are using their experience from SMB Banana Rumble
senj
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shadowman16 said:
See, I get your points but they gonna need DE on Switch 2 for Kiwami 2 (which is probably the next game). Plus, while Ive not looked at Switch 2 specs, I assume it should be able to run the DE at least as well as base PS4?
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At this point by all reports they're moving on from Dragon Engine (hence the Ishin Unreal test drive) so if they were to remake 0 I'm not thinking they'd have picked DE to do it in anyways?
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senj said:
At this point by all reports they're moving on from Dragon Engine (hence the Ishin Unreal test drive) so if they were to remake 0 I'm not thinking they'd have picked DE to do it in anyways?
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Considering current games as of February are still using the DE, that's not true... Until they actually reveal a new engine, Ill be believing they'll be sticking to existing engines... Especially as Ishin was such a technical disaster.
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senj said:
At this point by all reports they're moving on from Dragon Engine (hence the Ishin Unreal test drive) so if they were to remake 0 I'm not thinking they'd have picked DE to do it in anyways?
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They used unreal because they wanted the team to be experienced in using other technology. Super Monkey Ball used unity too.
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Blurb from Nintendo's press site:
Yakuza 0 Director's Cut: Discover the decadence and danger of 1988 Japan in Yakuza 0 Director's Cut. The definitive edition of the acclaimed origin story is coming first to Nintendo Switch 2. Players will have to fight through Tokyo and Osaka's entertainment districts as Kazuma Kiryu and Goro Majima in an epic crime drama. With the Director's Cut, players will find deeper insights into character backstories and incidents with never-before-seen cutscenes, plus, the new Red Light Raid online multiplayer mode**. Yakuza 0 Director's Cut launches on Nintendo Switch 2 on launch day.
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Tl;dr:
"Coming first to Nintendo Switch 2"
New cutscenes
Red Light Raid online multiplayer mode
Key art and screenshots:
Patitoloco
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Red Light Raid? what is that?
Coolsambob
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Timed exclusive is interesting - if physical ill bite
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Should have added more mini games smh
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